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Airship Ventures is bringing a Zeppelin NT airship to the SF Bay Area for daily sight seeing flights, advertising operations, corporate and event occasions and scientific missions. We start operations from Moffett Field, North Oakland and Sonoma County airports in November! More

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October 2008

Thrillist.com The Bay Area Zeppelin

July 2008

Assignment:Future  Floating an Old Idea: Airships
Airshipworld  The Zeppelin NT #4 on its way to London
The New York Times  Why Fly When You Can Float?

June 2008

Airship  Sister Ships Zeppelin NT 07-04 and NT-07-03
Napa Valley Register  Zeppelin flights for Napa?

May 2008

Palo Alto Daily News  German Zeppelin Takes Flight
Earth Times  First Flight of New Zeppelin Airship Completed
People's Daily  German-made Zeppelins Making California Comeback
MSNBC  Floating an Old Idea: Zeppelins Return
VentureBeat  Look, Up in the Sky: Zeppelin Company Airship Ventures Raises $8MSVSJ Business Journal  Airship Ventures Closes $8M round

March 2008

Airship  Friedrichshafen Update

February 2008

Mountain View Voice  Airship Ventures Takes Up Residence at Moffett
City Feet  Zeppelin Tours Coming to Moffett Field
Airshipworld  Airships are Coming Back to Moffet Field

January 2008

The Hermeneus  Zeppelin!

December 2007

Hangar One  Fate of Hangar One Could Be Set this Month
Loco2  Airships!

November 2007

Wired Science  Zeppelin Could Return to NASA Ames
Mountain View Voice  Company Floats Zeppelin Idea
Palo Alto Daily News  Zeppelin Plan Picks Up Speed

September 2007

San Jose Mercury News  Cassidy: Zeppelin Plan Crazy Enough to Take Off
Palo Alto Daily News  Zeppelin May Fly Over the Golden Gate to Moffett Field

July 2007

Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH
Zeppelin NT Flies for Jülich Climatologists
Zeppelin NT Receives Commercial Passenger License in Japan

June 2007

CNET  Tourist Airship May Soar over SF in 2008
Akron Beacon Journal  The Next Best Thing to a Blimp Ride
Mountain View Voice  Will Moffett Again House a Zeppelin?

May 2007

Esther Dyson's Flight School blog  Airship Dreams

April 2007

Airshipworld  Airship Ventures on the Rise
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* An original story is just that, and not simply a copy of something that has been syndicated. For example, the CNET story in June went far and wide, but we haven't provided links to every blog or online publication that chose to copy it, just the original piece.